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Genre/Form: | Congresses Cross-cultural studies Congresses |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Catherine Lutz; Lila Abu-Lughod |
ISBN: | 0521382041 9780521382045 0521388686 9780521388689 2735103676 9782735103676 2735103684 9782735103683 |
OCLC Number: | 21035208 |
Notes: | "Grew out of a session at the 1987 Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association called 'Emotion and Discourse'"--Preface. |
Description: | viii, 217 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Introduction: emotion, discourse, and the politics of everyday life / Lila Abu-Lughod and Catherine A. Lutz -- Shifting politics in Bedouin love poetry / Lila Abu-Lughod -- Moral discourse and the rhetoric of emotions / Geoffrey M. White -- Engendered emotion: gender, power, and the rhetoric of emotional control in American discourse / Catherine A. Lutz -- Topographies of the self: praise and emotion in Hindu India / Arjun Appadurai -- Shared and solitary sentiments: the discourse of friendship, play, and anger in Bhatgaon / Donald Brenneis -- Registering affect: heteroglossia in the liguistic expression of emotion / Judith T. Irvine -- Language in the discourse of the emotions / Daniel V. Rosenberg -- Untouchability and the fear of death in a Tamil song / Margaret Trawick. |
Series Title: | Studies in emotion and social interaction. |
Responsibility: | edited by Catherine A. Lutz, Lila Abu-Lughod. |
Abstract:
Emotions have long been a central concern in philosophy, psychological and sociological studies. When anthropologists began to study emotion, they challenged many assumptions shared by Western academics and lay persons by exposing the cultural variability of emotional meanings.
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